The Amur taiga hides many wonders. The iron bird Kori flies over it, the Creaky Old Lady hides in its bowl, and the keeper of the hearth, Dulen, looks after the people living among the forests. In difficult times, the mapa bear, the amba tiger or the queen fish Kaluga come to the aid of the brave ones, and a cunning fox can easily look into the nearest hut, like a neighbor. Heroic tales about brave hunters, instructive stories about hardworking beauties and funny stories about The inhabitants of the taiga have been carefully recorded for years and processed by folklorists and antiquity lovers. Khabarovsk artist Gennady Pavlishin breathed new life into the legends of the small peoples of the Amur region. His illustrations - decorative, woven from precise ethnographic details - created a unique and harmonious world of fairy tales of the Amur taiga. For children of primary school age.